How to Write Pay Banding Performance Plans
Pay banding is a type of performance-based pay scale in which employees ascend to different tiers or bands for which a set salary amount is designated based on their competency and development in their job. Pay banding is intended to promote a set of measurable goals which, when attained, will improve both the performance of individual employees as well as the company as a whole. Writing a pay banding performance plan requires you to specify the amount of banded levels, as well as the steps to climb those levels.
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Write out the amount of levels the pay banding performance plan will have and the salary for each level. Some businesses limit the total number of bands to a relatively small amount of bands, say four, but attach significant pay increases to each band. Other businesses include a multitude of bands with insignificant pay increases for each band.
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List a core set of criteria which an employee must master in order to ascend from one band to another. For example, in a school you might list curriculum development, classroom management, collaboration and communication.
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Develop a rubric of attainment for each criterion identifying the qualities an employee must demonstrate in order to attain mastery of that criterion. For example, for curriculum development, you might indicate that mastery involves coherent unit and lesson planning encompassing all state and national education standards and incorporating interdisciplinary cooperation with seamless transition from grade level to grade level.
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Identify several strategies for improving an employee's mastery over each criterion. These can include professional development workshops, independent study and practice sessions.
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Tips & Warnings
In developing a rubric, break down the criterion into levels of mastery. For example, City Charter High School in Pittsburgh identifies their levels as "Apprentice," "Journeyman," "Expert" and "Master."
